The topic became a discussion of a couple things. One, does a particular topic have a certain life to it, and that thread will die after a time anyway? Two, is it possible that the person who does kill the thread isn't the person who posts last?

I went with the second. I think frequently the thread dies because either a concensus has been reached (yeah right), people get sick of arguing (again fairly uncommon), nobody has said anything new for a while (that's the real one), or something more important/interesting came up. Sometimes the thread is dead, and a few people try to breathe some life back into it, and maybe get 2-3 more posts, but it was all the life-support. Unplug the machine, and the thread just dies again.

(Regarding other thread) I don't know which threads you're referring to, Fossil (*After typing this, I realized by virtue of additional posts that you were referring to the LOTR Wenches thread, and possibly others). For a long time, I figured I held the honor, as being the person who killed the "I, Christ" thread by Thor, at post #513. Back then, I believe it was the longest thread there had ever been.

So since that original thread is gone, why not have the discussion again? What causes a thread to be killed? (And I'm not talking the UBB errors that occasionally cause post #800 to appear on page 7.) With a different group of people, maybe we'll come to different conclusions?

Regardless, I hope Fossil doesn't leave over it. I can give him better reasons. (See? When I use a smilie, you'd better take it seriously.)

--Pop
 

*posted just in case no one else responds and Fossil finds the sacrificial knife in his hands yet again* (btw, Fossil, I'm sorry if you are not a he)
 

<Reminding self that it's around the time that I mentioned in the "Slow Times on Hatrack..." thread, so I don't need to feel bad that the thread has only gotten two responses from others, one of which was baited.>
 

If it is any further comfort, I think this thread falls under the 'everyone agrees and has nothing to add' category of small threads. I, of course, am an exception, as is clear by my two posts here.
 

<dusts hands off and wonders away muttering>

"There, if that doesn't kill this thread, nothing will!"

 

Besides, everyone knows when I kill a thread, the reason is because I am so right, there is really no way to refute it without looking like a fool.

::Tries desperately to sqeeze through the hatrack door and realizes her ego is much too big to fit::
 

It wasn't really much of a discussion, but Pap has since then been very thankful that other threads did not devolve into discussions of self-gratification.

And there you have it.

EDIT: I started writing this and then someone rang the doorbell, so I just finished it and didn't look to see if anyone had answered the question yet.

Ludosti, it SOOoooo har, um difficult to avoid double-entendres when discussing this topic.

[This message has been edited by Bob_Scopatz (edited May 08, 2002).]
 

After that, there were a number of thread topics that struck me as funny, when related to the topic of Onanism (another term for masturbation, possibly a misnomer, based on the Biblical character Onan I believe). Thread titles like "It's finally come -or- I'm getting older," "It's a big, big, big mess..." and "Frustration Relief Center." So I posted on these threads <Relieved this isn't another Onanism thread> for the sake of humor. That's all.
 

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http://www.hatrack.com/ubb/forum/Forum2/HTML/007091.html

. . . if it's still around. I was really hoping someone would challenge me on some of the assertions I made, since they were over the top and smacking a little of know-it-all, but no one seemed to care, and the thread rapidly died.
 

I have killed some very decent threads. There should be a thread killer's confessional thread.
 

One stigma, two stigmata.
 

I did it once, but it was a small dying thread anyways so I'm not sure that I was really the cause (but my ego is sure ) What about you poeple?

Huh, what about it?

Hobbes
 

What's even worse than being a thread killer is posting a topic and having no one respond. Or having it swing to a completely unrelated topic early on.
 

Well, there is one thing more pathetic, and that is to add a post after your last post just to bump it back up to the top. (I speak for myself. I just feel pathetic when I do it.)

And I'm tempted all the time. I seldom get a "page two" on a thread I've started.
 

::sticks tongue out at Ralphie::

::hopes that this doesn't get resurrected::

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There are three types of profiles for thread killers. A serial thread killer, a terrorist thread killer and a thrill thread killer.

Serial thread killers dont kill threads randomly.
Terrorist thread killers threaten to kill threads again and again until their demands are met.
Thrill thread killers get joy out of randomly killing threads.

What kind of thread killer are you?
 

We really do need a confesional thread *goes off to make one*
 

Ni!
 

*goes off to find it*
 

*kills thread*
 

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I was pretty tickled a couple weeks ago when I had three threads staying on the first page and I wasn't bumping them.

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I like to reply to posters, regardless of whether they are posting on my thread or not. So I'm probably considered a self-thread bumper. How do you participate and reply without bumping?

I do try to have the self-control and manners to let a thread die...because it's ready and it's time has come.

BannaOj...as a wise poster once told me...

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Hatrack can be a sluggish and unpredictable creature; you should never take its unresponsiveness as a measure for the quality of your posts!

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I want to find out who ever deleted his or her own thread and why?

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<-- grins

ginette, I think you did the right thing. EDIT:

You know I'm happy about every fellow-European (Canadians included ) here on Hatrack, don't you? Some of the issues you've been very concerned with, though, made me want to whisper that old prayer in your direction:

"Give me the strength to change those things I can change, The patience to accept those things I can't change, And the wisdom to know the difference."

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